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| India-Pakistan |
| Taliban attack drag queens, are attacked by villagers |
| 2007-04-13 |
| Clashes between militants and villagers in the Dhoda-Shah Hasankhel area Sources said a group of Taliban militants had beaten up some transvestite dancers, shaved their heads and broken their musical instruments near Abdulkhel as they were going to the Dhoda village to perform at a wedding on Wednesday night. Villagers at first thought it was a performance by The Who Villagers decided to take revenge by raising a Lashkar against the Taliban, the sources said. Cue the drums! Light and heavy weapons were used and the Taliban also fired rockets during the clash which lasted for several hours. The Taliban took 12 villagers hostage. Five of them were later freed while the others were in the custody of the Taliban till late evening, according to the administrator of a seminary, Hafiz Amanullah Khan. A heavy contingent of police and Frontier Constabulary personnel reached the area. A ceasefire was brokered by some local ulema who held talks with village elders and the Taliban. No Joooooooooos around, so I suppose the Ceasefire™ can last forever. The sources said the situation was tense and additional contingents of the FC had been summoned. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #3 The Taliban just can't resist offending their hosts. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-04-13 20:46 |
| #2 but in a manly way.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-13 19:42 |
| #1 first they came for the drag queens and I didn't speak up, because I rarely dressed up, and only when I felt "pretty"... then they came for the engineers wearing hawaiian shirts, jeans and boots and I learned to dress up.. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-13 19:40 |